The locusts have no king by Powell Dawn

Author:Powell, Dawn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Medievalists, Married women, Women dramatists, Commitment (Psychology), Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
Publisher: South Royalton, Vt. : Steerforth Press
Published: 1995-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

prises, his hours and even his friends were arranged carefully beforehand. Nothing as remarkable as a strange Negress addressing him on the roof had occurred to him in ages and Allan felt a sudden excitement out of all proportion to the episode.

"It's kinda chilly out here, don't you think, mister? Maybe now would be a good chance for you to show me just how you want things done inside. You just explain everything, because not working around I may not do it your way without your telling me. Don't it get on your nerves anyway those girls over there in the shop spying on you? People ought to mind their own business." Before he could answer she was pushing his chair toward the door of the shack and he was silent with inner amusement at her boldness. He was almost invariably annoyed by loquacious servants and certainly this one had said nothing extraordinary, yet the plaintive cajolery in her voice gave vague other meanings to her words. She was certainly a petty thief for she said, pushing his chair through the door, "If you weren't right here, see, you might think I took that brandy over there but being as you're right here you can see the bottle's almost empty anyway. And don't you worry about leaving your wallet around because I never take money from anybody. I never take anything that ain't freely offered, especially from a gentleman, because my husband wouldn't let me."

There was nothing to explain about tidying the room, nothing more than the usual admonitions about leaving papers as they were and taking care of breakables. Mrs. Bender, in fact, did not appear to listen as he began to tell her, but seated herself on a leather hassock before him, her soft opaque eyes fixed on him with her vaguely knowing smile. He could not disguise his surprise when she lit a cigarette, but she misconstrued the cause and said hastily, "No, I didn't take yours. I always carry my own cigarettes, no need to worry about that."

She had finished the room, evidently, but made no move

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